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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?
Date: 4 Apr 2025 00:16:57 GMT
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 16:38:57 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>    The 360/370 boxes WERE really popular, so I'm gonna GUESS there's a
>    least one or two still chugging away. Maint cost would be insane
>    these days ... but you can kinda bury that in the budget while new
>    hardware stands out more and in more places.

I'm not sure there are any little old ladies left to knit magnetic core. 
The tape drives were fragile when new but they and the disk drives the 
size of a washing machine may have been replaced over the years. My mother 
had a plastic thing to keep layer cakes fresh that I was always reminded 
of by the 2311's removable media.

https://d1yx3ys82bpsa0.cloudfront.net/groups/ibm-1311-2311.pdf

7.5 MB!!! What can you ever use that much storage for?  I bought a microSD 
last week for another RPi project. It's getting hard to find them less 
than 64 GB.